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Prophets oi Doom Seen in All Ages Wrote Pessimistically of the Tendency of Times. London.—Taking issue with those who see the world as proceeding in a continuous downward direction and with "prophets of doom" in general, a correspondent of the London Times sends to that paper an anthology of pessimism com " piled by himself. It commences, he says, with an early Babylonian tablet lamenting the growth of irreligion. of disre gard for law and disrespect for par ents. It proceeds inexorably through Egyptian papyri and the inspired lamentations of the Hebrew proph ets, through the melancholy fore bodings of Greek writers to the am pler records of the great Latin au thors of the Augustan age. Livy, who died three years after Augustus, observes In the preface to his first book that “to most read ers the earliest origins and the period immediately succeeding them will give little pleasure, for they will be in haste to reach these mod ern times, in which the might of a people which has long been very powerful is working its own undo ing. Tacitus Laments. Tacitus (“De Oratore"), a few years later, was loud in his denun ciation of the characteristic vices of the age. The gravest of historians in each successive age have spoken of their own times and of the immediate fu ture in terms of almost unrelieved gloom. Claudinn alone was optimis tic in his prophesies of the future greatness of Rome ("De Cons, Stil.,” Ill, 150): “ ’Tis she alone who has received the conquered into her bosom and like a mother, not an empress, pro tected the human race with a com mon name, summoning those whom she has defeated to share her citi zenship and drawing together dis tant races with bonds of affection. . . There will never be a limit to the empire of Rome.” Within five years the Jeaious i Honorius had murdered Stlllcho, * who alone might have saved Borne from destruction a few months later at the hands of Alaric. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, the graffiti of despairing men scratched on the walls of the church tower of Asherell In Hertfordshire at the time of the Black Death, the pas sionate outbursts of I’lers Plowman, the measured wisdom of Bacon and innumerable passages in Shake speare, Spenser and Raleigh, cul minating in Milton’s exuberant prose—all alike show how keenly good men in every age are aware of "how many are the perils through which we have to go.” Just State of Mind. The correspondent concludes: "Passing over Sir William Petty in 1685, and Rev. John Brown and his contemporaries, 1 have space only to refer to Sir Robert Giffen’s evidence before the Royal Commis sion on Trade Depression in 1886. Almost every witness testified to the impending collapse or rapid de cay of England. None could see anything but disaster ahead. Sir Robert Giflfen alone stood firm. He said: " ‘Depression was to him a state of mind of those in business; the result very often of too much talk and too little hard work. ... It would pass.’ “It did pass. All the middle-aged witnesses proved wrong. By 1895 we had risen to fresh heights, which we have long ago over-topped. The age of gold Is with us, provid ed free initiative remains to the in dividual.” NEW SANTA CLAUS Oscar Phillips, forty years of age, has been appointed postmaster of the town of Snnta Claus, Ind. He succeeds the late James F. Mnrtln. New Life Formula May Be Aid to Man Los Angeles.—The world of science was stirred by the feat of Dr. Ralph Willard, youthful research chemist, in bringing back to life a pig after it had been dead three days. Doctor Willard announced his experiment will prove revolu tionary in disease treatment. In bringing the animal back to life Doctor Willard applied heat until the body temperature was normal. Then a blood trans fusion brought the first faint heart action and adrenaline ephedrine injections quickened it. De Soto Indian Massacre Site Is Believed Found New Orleans.—Maurice Ries of the Department of Middle Ameri can Research, Tulane, believed that the site of one of Hernando de Soto’s massacres of coastal Indians had been found. This theory arose with the find ing of a large number of skeletons on the farm of H. P. Deere at Mnng hnm, La. More thun two score skulls have been dug up. From the condition of the hones it was estimated they had been in the ground about -400 years, Mr. ities said. “This appears to be an Important discovery," he said. “Condition of the bones and their location Indi cates a small war party encoun tered De Soto’s expedition and paid with its lives." Maps compiled by De Soto's band of adventurers in their travels through Louisiana and Arkansas showed they traveled a route pass ing right through Deere’s farm, Rles explained. Quadruplets Born to One Ewe on Iowa Farm Davenport, Iowa.—Roger Van Evera, Scott county farmer, cas ually went to his barn, all in the day’s work. When he saw his fa vorite ewe, his eyes bulged. She had given birth to four lambs. Van Evera explained that the birth of sheep in fours was about as rare as the birth of quintuplets among humans. Lights of New York By L. L. STEVENSON It was one of those rare evenings at home. May, Dick, Bill and I were playing contract. The house was quiet since the hour was near midnight. The street was quiet also except for occasional bursts of traffic or the clatter of that trolley that runs up and down Cen tral Park West all day and all night. Suddenly there were screams, screams of a woman caught In a nightmare horror, screams that sent chills through the blood. So we rushed to the windows. Across the street a woman was writhing on the sidewalk, and as she writhed, a red pool grew larger. Up the street a man was running. He wasn’t go ing fast because his movements were impeded by an overcoat. But no one was pursuing him. • • • Park apartments grew light. Faces appeared at windows, first floor window’s, and so on higher and higher. Deserted One Hun dred Fourth street suddenly be came populated. Men and women came out with coats thrown over sleeping gnrments—or fully clothed. They gathered about the woman on the sidewalk. Men picked her up and carried her into a hallway. A man in pajamas went up to the police box, opened it and sent In a call. Apparently no one gave a thought to that man running up the street. It was just as well—by the time assistance reached the woman he had disappeared. • • • What had happened was soon learned. The woman had come home alone after spending the eve ning at a neighbor's. She had only a few doors to go and many times had turned from Central I’ark West into One Hundred Fourth street with nothing happening. But hid den in the shadows of a boarded up entrance to the subway, lurked a man. In his hand, he held an iron-covered stick. When the wom an was opposite him, he struck— struck with such force that the weapon broke. But instead of drop ping silently to the pavement and giving him a chance to grab her purse, the woman screamed as she fell. • • • By and by an ambulance ar rived. A brisk interne leaped from the rear. There were no fractures —only a scalp wound. So with a hallway as an operating room, he went to work. The case history disclosed the fact that the woman is fifty years old. Alone in the world, she hail been unemployed for months. In the purse for which a highwayman might have taken her life, there wasn't a cent! • * * Thus an Incident in the City of the Seven Million—an incident that didn’t even draw a line or two in the newspapers. But I wonder what was in the mind of that man as he ran up the street? And what had been in his mind when he had wielded that bludgeon on the one who evidently was the first passer by? • • • Boys playing baseball on grass and shrubbery—healthful recreation or quiet and eye-resting vistas? Seems as if that question is always com ing up in crowded New York. It is under debate again in connection with Central park. The park de partment wants to take away the baseball diamonds and turn the space into park. Proponents of the diamonds are fighting the move. They hold that the park is for all the people and that kids playing baseball aren’t getting into trouble. • • • The other side is taken largely by tho-ie who live near the park. Sand lot baseball is not quiet. Noise admittedly is disturbing. The park dwellers declare that as they pay high prices for the privilege of living near the park, they should have the quiet. • • • Burns Mantle recalls that In all the years the Jate Richard Berry Harrison played the part of “De I.awd” in “The Green Pastures," tie objected to only one bit of busl ness. Instructions in the original script directed that when he ac cepted a ten-cent cigar from Ga briel he was to smoke it. Harrison objected to smoking and said so. It wasn’t dignified for "de Lawd’’ and it. wasn't pleasant for him. His objection stood. <g). Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Site of Germany’s New Naval Base Scene on the Island of Sylt In the North sea, where It Is alleged Germany Is constructing a powerful naval and airplane base, having camouflaged fortresses with five-foot thick walls and underground hangurs for planes. "QUOTES" -, COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS UTILITIES REGULATION By JOUETT SHOUSE President American Liberty I.eaKue (HOLD no brief for utilities and particularly I do not at tempt to defend some holding companies that have been organized In this country. In their basic or ganization and In their operations. I think they are properly subject to the ipost severe criticism, hut this bill, if placed In law In Us present form, will wipe out incontinently every holding company every utility holding company, In America, and the net effect will be necessarily to destroy the Investments mounting Into hundreds of millions, even bil lions, of dollars In the securities of those companies, because if they are compelled to dissolve, as tlds bill requires, there will be no earth ly market where the securities that comprise their assets can possibly be sold and you will hnve dumped upon an unwilling and an unbuylng public n mass of securities which it will neittier accept nor which could It digest. Regulation, yes. TRANSITION By JAMES ROWLAND A NO ELL President of Yale University IN OUR own country, the transition from the old to the new is still in active proc ess. We have been passing from a nominally Individualistic and com petitive economic system, increas ingly Jn fact controlled by great ag gregations of capital, to a system of controlled finance, commerce and Industry, with governmental agen cies furnishing the framework for such control. Whether a nominally Jeffersonian democracy, with its traditional creed that government must govern as little ns possible, can accomplish this miracle, remains to be seen. But if It falls, something far more drastic may well succeed it, for men will not Indefinitely tolerate the con tinuation, much less the repetition, of the hopeless mess our earlier economic and political systems have landed ns In. BUYING TODAY By MICHAEL SCIIAAP Noted New York Merchant. BUYING for distribution to day is no longer the satis fying simple thing for which the main equipment was native shrewdness and ability to haggle and bargain; it calls for a knowl-i edge of consumer demand, indus trial conditions and consumer pur chasing power. It sounds almost absurd to say that the law of supply and demand has been repealed or modified and yet that is literally the effect of the numerous regulations of today which limit or control output, fix or control prices and wages, discounts and advertising allowances, limit working hours and limit the amount of machinery that may be added. A NOTE OF FAITH By CHARLES M. SCHWAB Steel Industry Magnate. FIVE years ago I made the statement that there were no more rich men—a statement that went around the world. I did say it. and I want to point out that it was practically right Things will come right In ttie long run and times will he prosper ous in the day to come. We may have cut our profits, lost vast sums of money, but we retain good fel lowship and comradeship In our re lations. Keep a cheerful, stiff upper lip. This depression lias struck industry and all those In industry very hard, but I’m not going to lose my faith, THE CURRENT CONTROVERSY By MARK SULLIVAN Noted Journalist. THERE is much commotion in the world, but I suspect the commotion has only just begun. We are, I think, in one of those historic controversies which arise once In so many centuries. The controversy, is between two conceptions of society, one which puts emphasis on a man as an in dividual, another which puts em phasis on tlie hive and regards the individual as merely a servant of the hive; on the one side, maximum liberty for the individual, on the other side maximum power for the state; on the one side freedom, on file other side compulsion; on the one side Individualism, on the oth er side collectivism. ENGLAND FOR PEACE By STANLEY BALDWIN British Statesman. 'T'HE nations are not walking A in the ways of peace, but the dangerous roads leading to war. I would not call myself a pes simist, but 1 fed I at times that I am living in a madhouse. Tills country does not want war, and If war can only be prevented by letting the ag gressor know war will not he per mitted in Europe, this country will play her part, I am convinced, with the rest of Europe In saying that no aggression shall take place. HERE’S AMERICAN! OF THE FUTURE As Depicted l*y Prominent Anthropologist. Those of us who might be inter ested In science’s quest to deter mine the exact nature of the typical American so far as his physical makeup Is concerned, probably will find some small comfort in the theory of Professor Albert E. Jenks, a noted anthropologist of the University of Minnesota. The gist of Professor .leaks' opinion Is that whatever the number of con flicting conceptions might exist at the moment ns to the physical Iden tity of the American, the time is not too far distant when he will have n definite and recognizable racial classification. The typical American, according to Professor Jenks. will not be n tall blond person, as some might have supposed. He will he only “fairly tall.” dark eyed, dark hatred and darker skinned than the pres ent average. This, lie asserts, will be the ultimate outcome of the in terbreeding among the enrly and late arrivals on tills continent. Upon the whole, If Professor Jenks’ the ory Is well founded, the typical American will not lie nn unattrac tive person, nssmnlng of course, thnt lie incorporates a portion of the better physical qualities of each of the racial strain, thnt mnke him. Man's concern over the question of what he is. ns well as what lie does, is not motivated solely by con siderations of vnnltj. Curiosity also plnys Its part. In seeking the Hel lene of the classicist ami Hie Roman of the Etruscan line he finds them not In the Greek nnd Italian of today. He becomes giddy, striving to fol low the ancient medley of races thnt swarmed nnd Intermingled on the Spanish peninsula. In striving to trace his family lineage he Is dismayed by the multitude of his own ancestors, enough to populate a small city within a surprisingly few generations. “ In any event, and whatever we of America might eventually become, there Is comfort In the thought thnt we shall be a definite something. Since we are a nation, there is lit tle reason why we should not also be a race; and L must be acknowl edged thnt there Is some excellent materinl here.—Manchester (N. II.) Union. BEAT THE DRUMS CRISP AND BRQWN HERE IT COMES BEST IN TOWN CLAP A HAND i THE FLAVOR’SGRAND v Once you taste Grape-Nuts Flakes, you’ll cheer too! 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